Restore Database
Restore Database
How much success do you have with restoring the NewsPro database and having most of the data intact? When I do this my number of articles drop from the tens of thousands to a few dozen. Is this by design or am I doing something wrong?
What do you mean by "session"?
NewsPro certainly does not restore itself to the state when I last started the program. I don't end up with an entirely empty database either which also seems odd. It just has a few dozen articles in various groups. Perhaps restore just restores the headers downloaded during the last session? (Not very useful if that's the case.)
I do find this an issue since my system recently automatically rebooted after a system update while running NewsPro overnight. The tens of thousands of headers previously saved in the database has been reduced to a mere dozen.
Is there any way to make the database a bit more robust so it can survive an abnormal exit from the software without losing 99% of the data?
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I just read a post where the user says that database restore works fine for him. Just to be clear, I have NEVER had the database restore function restore even 1% of of my previous data. Is this working as you expect?
NewsPro certainly does not restore itself to the state when I last started the program. I don't end up with an entirely empty database either which also seems odd. It just has a few dozen articles in various groups. Perhaps restore just restores the headers downloaded during the last session? (Not very useful if that's the case.)
I do find this an issue since my system recently automatically rebooted after a system update while running NewsPro overnight. The tens of thousands of headers previously saved in the database has been reduced to a mere dozen.
Is there any way to make the database a bit more robust so it can survive an abnormal exit from the software without losing 99% of the data?
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I just read a post where the user says that database restore works fine for him. Just to be clear, I have NEVER had the database restore function restore even 1% of of my previous data. Is this working as you expect?
Looking at the file menu I can see Optimize, Reset and Switch. I don't see any function labelled "Backup". Are you referring to the "Save and Restart" function? This seems a bit extreme if its the only backup option. Shouldn't NewsPro save a backup on exit at the very least?
In short I think that the NewsPro database should be made robust enough to survive an abnormal termination of the program without losing nearly all the data.
In short I think that the NewsPro database should be made robust enough to survive an abnormal termination of the program without losing nearly all the data.